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Ray Manzarek
My Father’s Place,
Roslyn, NY
March 26th 1975.
Very good to excellent soundboard (?)

Lineage:
Soundboard? > Original Silver > WavePad > Flac Level 8

Including artwork.

Thanks to everyone who shared this and for keeping it alive:
Originally upped on Dime by tombstone, a.k.a. KB69 in April 2006.
Seeded on Trader’s Den in August 2007.
Reseeded at Dime by hothcanada.

Uploader’s notes:

On my last Ray Manzarek torrent I requested that someone seed this show if they had it. I got the date wrong. I thought (from memory) that it was June 18, 1975. I don’t know where I got that date but it turns out it was March 26, 1975. I found this brief, albeit great sounding, snippet of that very performance on a trip to Greenwich Village earlier today with my family. I believe it is soundboard. It certainly sounds so; there is no audience interference. I based the musicians on the info in Ray’s “Whole Thing Started With Rock n Roll” CD which lists these members as the touring band in early 1975. The boot I lifted these three tracks from lists the third song as “When The Music’s Over/Light My Fire” which is incorrect. Track 3 fades in during the solo section of “Bicentennial Blues” from the aforementioned LP which takes its chordal approach directly from “Light My Fire” before seguing into “Fire”. Then, unfortunately, the song fades out leaving Track 3 incomplete at both ends. It’s too bad, really, as the beginning of “Bicentennial Blues” is quite different from the solo part and sounds like it could have been right at home on the next Door’s LP had they stayed together long enough to record the follow up to “Full Circle”.


Track 01: I Wake Up Screaming 8:57* 
Track 02: Downbound Train 7:38 
Track 03: (fades in) Bicentennial Blues/Light My Fire (fades out) 5:22 
*Ray recites Jim Morrison’s poem “Ensenada” during this track.

Ray Manzarek - keyboards, vocals
Charlie Harrison - bass
Terry Sales - guitar
Hunt Sales - drums